Cope With Tech - by Eric John Emberda

It's quite easy creating a simple information system with Firebird and C# express 2008. You will need the following to do this: 1. Firebird RDBMS (The latest release as of this post is 2.1.3) 2. EMS IBManager Lite (The freeware version. There are other Free Firebird IDE that you can use but for me, this one is the most user-friendly) 3. Microsoft C# Express 2008 (This can be downloaded at the Microsoft Website) 4. Firebird .Net Provider Creating the database: 1. Create a database in EMS IBManager Lite We'll create a table for recording our Gold IRA Deposits. An IRA is a retirement account that can be used by an employed person. It can be in various form. One of which is an IRA Gold in which instead of money being deposited, you deposit gold. It can be a gold coin. Preferably, it would be good to deposit high value items such as a 401k Gold . Use the following for the fields. Be sure to edit the ID field to have an autoincrement va...

Firebird is a free relational database that allows many SQL features and has existed since 1981. It supports indexing, primary key, foreign key, stored procedures, and many more. You can use it in many platforms of Linux and Windows. I liked using it because it's free. The only problem is with its IDE. It is really hard to find a user-friendly IDE that is also free. Although there is Flamerobin, I didn't like using it. The commercial ones like EMS for Firebird and IBExpert. I just wish the open source community also comes up with a comprehensive IDE for Firebird. It also took a very long while for Firebird to come up with another version. Maybe because it is almost complete.